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Unit 6 Birdwatching
Reading
Objectives
1 To know the meanging of the new words and expressions in the
article
2 To get more detailed information about Zhalong
Nature Reserve.
3 To know the importance of protecting animals.
Lead-in
Last week, Annie and Simon talked about animals.
Which of the following animals did they talk about?
They wanted to find a perfect place to watch cranes, but they didn’t’t know where to go.
Luckily , their classmate Sandy joined the Birdwatching Society. So they asked help for Sandy to get some information.
Sandy found an article about a nature reserve for cranes. She wants to introduce the place to them.
But she has problems introducing the nature
reserve. Can you help her?
wetlands
Pre-reading
provide food and cover for a lot of wildlife
It is a perfect place for some rare birds.
Every year, many tourists go there to watch birds.
Some people want to make the wetlands
smaller in order to have more space for
farms and buildings.
Moreover, some fishermen keep fishing there.
n. 渔民, 钓鱼的人
vi. 捕鱼
Sandy mixes the meaning of these following words, please help her
Unit 6 Birdwatching
Match the words on the left with the meanings on the right.
provide
perfect
lead to
prevent
tourist
understand
stop sth. from happening
know
a person who is travelling or visiting a place
give sth. to someone or sth. else
the best
have sth. as a result
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1.What’s the article about?
2.What do the author hope?
Skimming
It’s about Zhalong Nature Reserve.
More people understand the importance of the wetlands .
While-reading
1.Where is the Zhalong Nature Reserve?
Scanning Para 1-2
It’s in Heilongjiang Province in North-east China.
While-reading
2. Do all the birds stay there all the time?
3. How many cranes live in Zhalong?
No, some go there only for a short stay.
40 per cent of them live there.
Read para3 and match them
1. Some people want to make the wetlands smaller
2. If people do so,
3. Some fis